[comp.text] edt or vi

tlastran@esunix.UUCP (Tom LaStrange) (12/12/86)

I have not used EDT so cannot compare the two, but I do have a 
question.  Has anyone ever ported vi to VMS or written emacs
macros to allow emacs to behave like vi?

               Tom LaStrange
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               Tom LaStrange
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bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield) (12/20/86)

In article <273@esunix.UUCP> tlastran@esunix.UUCP (Tom LaStrange) writes:

> ...Has anyone ever ported vi to VMS or written emacs macros to allow
> emacs to behave like vi?
>
>               Tom LaStrange
>               Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation

	GNU Emacs has two different flavors of vi emulation, named
`vi-mode' and `vip-mode'.  Since GNU Emacs runs on VMS, a really
twisted person could probably run what looks to him like vi on a VMS
VAX.  Or he could run an EDT emulator instead.

	By the way, I have also noticed that former EDT users get
along better with Emacs than with vi, probably because EDT and Emacs
both feel modeless, while vi isn't that way at all.
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